Wearing face masks will be compulsory in Spain until a coronavirus vaccine is found, with police empowered to hand out fines for non-compliance, the government said on Tuesday. Health Minister Salvador Illa said the measure would continue after the country's state of emergency ends on June...

A huge fire broke out at an oil field near popular ecotourism spots in northeastern India on Tuesday, after gas that had spewed for two weeks from a blown-out well ignited, officials said. The gas well at an oil field managed by state-owned Oil India started leaking in late May in Tinsukia...

Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab, who played a key role in 2011 anti-government protests, was freed from jail Tuesday after serving time over tweets critical of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen. "Nabeel has been released and he is on his way home now," his lawyer Mohammed...

Syrians held a third day of rare anti-regime protests over deteriorating living conditions Tuesday in the government-held city of Sweida, a war monitor said, as the value of the pound sunk. The value of the Syrian pound has plummeted with dizzying speed in recent days on the informal...

The mayor of Madrid has said the city is being considered as a potential host of this year's Champions League final and has given the idea his "total and absolute support". The fixture was due to be played at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul on May 30 before the Champions League was...

Tehran said Tuesday it will execute an Iranian for spying for the United States and Israel after his conviction was upheld for helping the US to locate a top Iranian general killed in a drone strike. Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was convicted of spying on Iran's armed forces, "especially the Quds...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will travel to Jerusalem on Wednesday, with Israel intent on toning down Europe's reaction to its annexation plans in the occupied West Bank. Maas is the first foreign dignitary to visit since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a coalition government...

Nearly one in five Iranians may have been infected with the novel coronavirus since the country's outbreak started in February, a health official said Tuesday. "About 15 million Iranians may have experienced being infected with this virus since the outbreak began," said Ehsan Mostafavi, a...

The Belgian port city of Antwerp took down a statue of late King Leopold II on Tuesday, days after it was daubed with paint by anti-racism protesters. Statues of Leopold have long been a target of activists because of his record of brutal colonial rule in Belgium's former central African...

An oil spill that sparked a state of emergency has contaminated a freshwater lake in the Russian Arctic, an official said Tuesday, after authorities claimed to have contained the pollution. The announcement came after a spokeswoman for the taskforce in charge of the accident clean-up told...

Russian air strikes on northwestern Syria killed a civilian Tuesday, the first such fatality since a ceasefire went into force three months ago, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian warplanes launched around 15 pre-dawn strikes on towns and villages in...

Palestinians have sent the diplomatic Quartet a response to the US Mideast plan which sees parts of the West Bank being annexed by Israel, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said Tuesday. "We submitted a counter-proposal to the Quartet a few days ago," he said, referring to the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A rigged motorcycle exploded in northeastern Hasakah province, killing two citizens as hundreds went to streets protesting deteriorating economic conditions ahead of U.S. Caesar sanctions, activists said Tuesday. The attack happened in the village of al-Gharb on the...

In the darkness, the bodies of suspected victims of coronavirus are carried in silence, one after the other, to be buried in several cemeteries across northern Yemen. Flashlights flicker as mourners make their way through the shadows. The corpses are washed with disinfectants, wrapped in...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that he has reached agreements with his US counterpart Donald Trump that could herald a "new era" concerning Libya. Erdogan made the comment in a television interview following a telephone call with the US president, but did not elaborate...

Italy's Muslim community, like others, suffered many deaths as the coronavirus pandemic hit the Mediterranean country hard. Compounding the pain for the religious minority has been the grim reality of a lack of space to bury their dead. Imams and Muslim community leaders are now calling...

A year after pro-democracy protests erupted in the Chinese-held territory, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said the semiautonomous city cannot afford to tolerate any more of the "chaos" as mass arrests, Covid-19 bans on gatherings and a looming national security law keep tensions on a...

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said a slave trader's statue that was torn down and dumped in a harbour during anti-racism protests should "stay in the river". Hamilton, who is F1's only black driver, was commenting after protesters in the British city of Bristol toppled the...

Bashar al-Assad's rise to power after three decades of his father's iron-fisted rule raised hope of democratic opening. But 20 years later, Syria is isolated and war-ravaged. Crumbling under a stinging economic downturn, Western sanctions and nine years of war, Syria today is a far cry from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The four-year-old Syrian refugee child Nader Tamakha suffers from congenital malformation of the urinary tract and is in urgent need for treatment amid fears of kidney function if not treated quickly. Doctors diagnosed the case of reflux in the urine as having a...